john coltrane - giant steps

somejerk · Post by **somejerk** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:55 am

fucking phenomenal jazz music. there's a couple tracks and then variations of the tracks, at different tempos, with minor variations. such lovely music!

"spiral" is so nice, as is "naima". definitely my favorites on the album.

anyone else into jazz?

tacospheros · Post by **tacospheros** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:05 am

love me some jazz .

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:12 pm

Yeah love that album, not a mad jazzhead but love Coltrane's stuff. Mingus always welcome too, played Haitian Fight Song on my streamizm Sunday sesh a while back.

digistepz · Post by **digistepz** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:32 am

Its all about Gil Evans...fuckin badman

Smoooove, but still fuckin great

datura · Post by **datura** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:55 am

I go through periods of listening to it, and then finding it hard to listen to. It depends on my mood.

Music doesn't get much better than Kind of Blue though.

dappa d · Post by **dappa d** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:31 pm

love it.
Africa sessions are even stronger in my opinion.
Someone else who also doesnt get enough props in my mind is Alice Coltrane (who died december of last year, just beginning a new tour).
Spacey, surging, ecstatic music.
I'll see if I can't find any songs from her "PTAH THE EL-DAOUD" Album.
Also check JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA. Here is a discography

jim · Post by **jim** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:37 pm

Giant steps is brilliant. Love Coltrane. Really impressive improvisation on the record, over really quick and strange chord changes he still manages to sound great and make memorable melodic lines.

jim · Post by **jim** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:38 pm

Love Supreme and Ascension are also the shit. Still haven't got my head round ascension to be honest, but I like trying and since I eventually got into Ornette Coleman's "Free jazz" I'll probably do the same wi this.

blackmass plastics · Post by **blackmass plastics** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:58 pm

I can highly recommend cheking out Sun Ra and the Arkestra , a grossly underated group of jazz visionaries working from the 50's til the present day (sun ra himself died in the early ninties),sax maestro Marshal Allen still keeps the band going.
From the abstract multidimensional angles of The Heliocentric Worlds to the warm classic Jazz in Silhouette their output and energy is astounding
Its worth tracking down the documentary 'A Joyful Noise' ,there are plenty of torrents of it around.
links:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sun+Ra
http://www.myspace.com/sunrasaturn
http://www.myspace.com/soundofjoy
http://www.myspace.com/thesunraarkestra

benj b · Post by **benj b** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 4:54 pm

two records from the same year;

Crescent - v underrated

and of course;

A Love Supreme

luv2spin32 · Post by **luv2spin32** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:01 pm

jazz is brilliant...good inspiration, too!

yojimbo · Post by **yojimbo** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:21 pm

saw this a few years back ......its not the full tune but
is a great visual interpretation (i reckons)
CLICK YE HERE!

7" · Post by 7" » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:35 am

pure genius, legend.

holik · Post by **holik** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:32 pm

i love jazz music.

out of john coltrane, the mindboggling genius he was, i got to say meditations is my all time favorite. the deepness of the layers is always a surprise.

just bought JOURNEY TO SATCHIDANANDA the other week, been listening to it religiously. very dope album.

also... on a different note, yusef lateef- savoy; morning sessions

oh so so so good.

john coltrane - giant steps

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